Book Review | Folk heroes take precedence over icons, wording of title still curious

Review of 'Bravehearts of Bharat' by Vikram Sampath

India is rectifying past mistakes: PM Modi

India's history is not just about slavery but also about India emerging victorious, its warriors and the valour of countless greats, PM said

In recent years, the Sangh Parivar’s historians have been seeking to revise history to suit some of their ideological peculiarities

Nitish Kumar’s wonderment about how history can be revisited is as much pregnant with political meaning as the call of Amit Shah on its need

Home minister says historians ignored Cholas, Pandyas to focus on Mughals

Little is told about regions like Odisha and Bengal, while Assam hardly figures

Indian historians, even in my school days, decolonised the accounts of Indian history written by British Raj historians

Ironically, many Indian rulers had French-speaking officials in their kingdom.

The Mahabharat was a civil war and no Indian really celebrates it. The Ramayan, on other hand, was a war.

Earlier, it was also reported that the BJP Government in the state had not included Taj Mahal as part of UP's 'cultural heritage'.